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Essays on the Cold War

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  • © 1992

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Authors:
  1. Murray Wolfson

    1. California State University, Fullerton, USA
      University of California, Irvine, USA

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Murray Wolfson
    Pages 1-14

  3. A Requiem for Marxism

    • Murray Wolfson
    Pages 15-31

  4. Perestroika and the Quest for Peace

    • Murray Wolfson
    Pages 32-50

  5. Johnson’s Problem

    • Murray Wolfson
    Pages 51-59

  6. A Three-Party Model of World Conflict

    • Murray Wolfson
    Pages 60-80

  7. Notes on Economic Warfare

    • Murray Wolfson
    Pages 81-98

  8. Do Zones of Deterrence Exist?

    • Murray Wolfson
    Pages 99-104

  9. Economic Warfare Between the Superpowers

    • John P. Farrell
    Pages 105-129

  10. Toward a Negative Arms Race

    • John P. Farrell
    Pages 130-141

  11. A General Model of Economic and Military War

    • John P. Farrell
    Pages 142-162

  12. Economic Causation in the Breakdown of Military Equilibrium

    • Homa Shabahang
    Pages 163-184

  13. Macroeconomic Warfare

    • Murray Wolfson
    Pages 185-206

  14. Epilogue 1991

    • Murray Wolfson
    Pages 207-209

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 210-244
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This book is concerned with the ideological origins of the cold war and how it was fought by economic means. The book revolves around four major themes. Firstly, it is argued that the origin of the cold war is not to be found in rational, economic motivation, but in ideology through which both the East and West perceived 'reality'. Secondly, these ideological preconceptions generated complex feed-back processes of hostility that lasted forty years. Thirdly, although this hostility was expressed in political, ideological and military terms, the decisive battle was fought in economic terms as each nation devoted resources to unproductive military purposes. Finally, the end of the cold war came with the collapse of the dysfunctional Soviet economy. Although, the Soviets lost the cold war, in the light of the ascendancy of its competitors, the United States did not win it.

Authors and Affiliations

  • California State University, Fullerton, USA

    Murray Wolfson

  • University of California, Irvine, USA

    Murray Wolfson

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